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Sandman, L., Gustavsson, E. (2016). Beyond the Black Box Approach to Ethics!; Comment on “Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 5(6), 393-394. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.43
Lars Sandman; Erik Gustavsson. "Beyond the Black Box Approach to Ethics!; Comment on “Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy”". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 5, 6, 2016, 393-394. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.43
Sandman, L., Gustavsson, E. (2016). 'Beyond the Black Box Approach to Ethics!; Comment on “Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy”', International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 5(6), pp. 393-394. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.43
Sandman, L., Gustavsson, E. Beyond the Black Box Approach to Ethics!; Comment on “Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2016; 5(6): 393-394. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.43

Beyond the Black Box Approach to Ethics!; Comment on “Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy”

Article 9, Volume 5, Issue 6, June 2016, Page 393-394  XML PDF (310 K)
Document Type: Commentary
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.43
Authors
Lars Sandman 1, 2; Erik Gustavsson3
1National Centre for Priority Setting in Health-Care, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
2University of Borås, Borås, Sweden
3Division of Arts and Humanities, Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Abstract
In the editorial published in this journal, Daniels and colleagues argue that his and Sabin’s accountability for reasonableness (A4R) framework should be used to handle ethical issues in the health technology assessment (HTA)-process, especially concerning fairness. In contrast to this suggestion, it is argued that such an approach risks suffering from the irrrelevance or insufficiency they warn against. This is for a number of reasons: lack of comprehensiveness, lack of guidance for how to assess ethical issues within the “black box” of A4R as to issues covered, competence and legitimate arguments and finally seemingly accepting consensus as the final verdict on ethical issues. We argue that the HTA community is already in a position to move beyond this black box approach.
Keywords
Health Technology Assessment (HTA); Accountability for Reasonableness (A4R); Ethics; Ethical; Competence; Ethical Analysis
Main Subjects
Health Policy Ethics
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